Author Archives: Michele Theodore

Susan Olesik, chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is worried about the College of Arts and Sciences. “It’s been a high-anxiety time,” she said. “But what are you going to do?” Olesik, along with several other department heads at Ohio State, is worried ...

Campus Partners announced a plan that would revamp several acres of the off-campus district. It would eliminate some of our favorite campus places, specifically around 15th Avenue and High Street, in an effort to make a “commercial planned district.” It’s been several weeks since the ...

Kappa Kappa Gamma has been suspended from Ohio State’s campus until 2017. The women’s fraternity received the two-year suspension after a hazing incident that occurred earlier this year. An investigation by the Office of Student Life found that the Beta Nu chapter violated the Code ...

Everyone thinks it’s a joke when I open up my laptop and there’s a picture of Abraham Lincoln looking back at me sternly. Honestly, it’s caused quite a few double takes in class. But it couldn’t be further from a joke. Lincoln inspires me to ...

Ohio State is joining 26 other universities in an effort to assess the services it provides for sexual assault victims. The schools are collaborating with the Association of American Universities, a nonprofit organization that connects 62 “leading public and private research universities” in the U.S. ...

“This is a huge problem, but people don’t take it seriously because sexual assault isn’t clearly defined.” That response, from a survey conducted by the Undergraduate Student Government to assess the climate and knowledge of sexual assault at Ohio State, sums up the results of ...

There are about 1.97 million people in Ohio who have taken out student loans. That’s the equivalent of filling Ohio Stadium about 19 times. And those people have piled up the sixth-biggest state debt in the country at more than $49.6 billion, according to information ...

Students won’t vote on if Ohio State should divest this year. An initiative asking the university to cut financial ties from companies “complicit in Israeli human rights violations and the occupation of the Palestinian Territories,” according to the OSU Divest website. has been removed from ...

The Beta Nu chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is under investigation from Ohio State. After receiving a cease and desist letter earlier this week, The Columbus Dispatch reported that the university is investigating the women’s fraternity because a pledge was hit by a car while ...

It was hard not to feel happy after MisterWives played in Columbus. The band’s songs inherently make you feel good, and it’s easy to jump around to the pop beats. It’s just happy music. When the six members came out to “Our Own House,” the ...